I haven’t had the patience to go through the discussions that developed in the wake of the Men’s Rights Subreddit’s historic winning of the prestigious King Dick of Fart Mountain Subreddit of the Day award yesterday. But I did read enough to come across this little exchange, in which a heroic Men’s Rightser confessed how touched he was that someone outside the Men’s Rights subreddit had noticed the bold, brave activism of Reddit MRAs.
And then someone pointed out some other things he’s said a couple of days ago.
NWOslave, is that you?
Actually, I doubt it; NWOslave has an account under his own name there. But great minds do think alike.
Here’s the link to StarFscker’s original comment in context.
I want to beat them all with a copy of Fowler’s in one hand and the Oxford in the other.
OT: Mads is giving Bally a major workout, flinging herself on him, grappling, batting him around his track and being CUTE.
All this while I have no video camera handy.
Typical.
I also assume that all MRAs eat with their mouth open.
Elbows on the table and probably on someone else’s plate.
@Kiwi Girl
I’ve done some editing and some of what I edited was REALLY bad, but none of it compares to the way the MRAs write.* And the more you look at what they’ve written, the less sense it makes.
“the is coming from a guy who is a bf”
the is coming
(I mean, I get how autocorrect would do that, but still I can’t stop saying it in my head.)
*I once edited a paper written by a group of undergrads that basically had to be completely redone. There was plagiarism, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, quotations without sources, grammar and spelling mistakes, the works. Still better than the MRAs. Although, I will say that some of the MRAs take criticism if their writing better than some if the professors I’ve edited stuff for.
@ Some girl 🙂 It all boils down to: if someone writes like a 5-year-old, their comments will be treated as coming from a 5-year-old. Of course, if their main audience is all 5-year-olds, they will be applauded.
I’ve had a few people (friends of friends, mostly) try to offer “help” like this. They literally make me nauseous.
Actually my favorite example of MREnglish in trollboy’s comment is “plane jane”.
And move their lips while reading.
@gelar
That’s awful. I am sorry you had to deal with them. 🙁
Can you imagine the compile errors if these guys tried to program sexbots? They should all be forced to use an inline syntax checker for English before they can post their comments. One that doesn’t allow any content to be commented out.
Bwahahahahaha
/wipes coffee off screen thanks to hellkell’s comment.
Some Gal – that undergrad paper you had to redo reminds me of my first boss. I was a graphic artist but ended up opting to do his editing, because the prospect of any other departments reading his stuff was past embarrassing. There were times when I literally could not make out what he was trying to say: I’d have to take it back to him and ask, because his writing was MRA-level bad. Worse, some of it, if you can believe it.
Mind you the plus side was that he was a great mangler of cliches and proverbs, so much so that the rest of us decided he was a prophet speaking in tongues. The funniest part of that was that he and two others were born-agains who did go in for speaking in tongues, and the other two were right in with the joke of him as a weird prophet. I had a list of all his weird sayings and used to distribute it to friends around the building. “Biting at straws” is one I remember, and “it gets my goat up” – pervy goat. 😉
Maybe Plane Jane is wearing her pilot’s uniform and bozo doesn’t realise?
Purple Star says it is a problem with his(?) girlfriend and what she wants to wear, but if we take all of the comment at face value, what is ultimately stopping the girlfriend from wearing sexier clothes is that “she doesn’t like that kind of attention from strangers.” The problem is with how other people react to her clothing. Purple Star and the guy in the OP are both ignoring the responsibility other people have to behave like decent people and trying to tell women that we MUST deal with horrid people in certain ways. The OP guy wants preemptive modesty and Purple Star wants the girlfriend to ignore them. Both of these reactions make things better for the guys demanding them and worse for women, in particular, less comfortable in public spaces.
For our own good, of course.
[hands Kiwi girl a paper towel]
The guy in the cube next to me at work does that, and he’d probably be an MGTOW if he knew about it. He’s also the World’s Most Annoying Man.
Cassandra: I was at Feminist Oppression HQ AKA Sephora today, and got the Clinique Black Honey almost lipstick, I love it! Thanks for the recommendation.
@The Kittehs’
I’m glad there was an upside. Now I want to work “biting at straws” into conversations. I think I’d be too embarrassed to use “gets my goat up,” though I like it better. And it does wound dirty.
The MRAs get my goat, but they do not get my goat up. My goat is very much down for them.
*sound dirty
@ hellkell
Yay! And see, you and I have totally different coloring – it really does look good on almost everyone.
Some Gal – not only that we must put up with whatever behaviour these men choose to dish out, but that we have to wear what they tell us to, even knowing it’s not our choice and can make us uncomfortable (physically or psychologically) and unhappy.
So once again: Purple Star, your mate and all men who want to do this to women: go fuck yourselves with Legos. Then go buy yourselves Barbie dolls and play dress ups with them. They’re not alive and they’re more suited for your level of maturity than any living person is.
Kiwi girl – most of it was upside in one sense. We had years of laughs from that guy. I even did cartoons of him in prophet mode. Wish I still had those lists around, “biting at straws” was the least of it. I remember him hearing the word flatulence and asking if that isn’t what “old ladies get” – he meant hot flushes. Yeah, not a manager who got a lot of respect from the peons! 😀
LOL. One of my managers used long Latin phrases in writing. People used to ask me what they meant. I didn’t learn Latin at school – it wasn’t offered. But nice to know that others thought that I did! 🙂
I’ve been buried in LaTeX for the last couple of days. I have managed to get a new class added in, and retain my document folder structure. I have now also learned how to cite and emphasize text. That will be it for my weekend of studentness.
I had to look up what LaTeX is, because I had images of you buried in latex coming to mind, and I was fairly sure that wasn’t what you meant! 😛
@Some Gal: Thank you for your concern! I didn’t mean to make it sound as if it’s something I put up with often; there’s a reason they’re “friends of friends” instead of actual friends, after all!
gelar – sounds like the more degrees of separation, the better, with them.